Millions of acres of national forests and other public lands could be sold for housing development, per language inserted into the U.S. Senate's proposed budget on June 12.

It highlight US Forest Service lands in green and Bureau of Land Management lands in yellow. Notably, Utah Sen. Mike Lee—who crafted the provision—exempted the state of Montana from his sell ...

Angeles National Forest and other public lands play an outsize role in both outdoor recreation and access to parks and green space in the Los Angeles area, and the forest is often called the ...

The rule affected 30% of national forest lands nationwide, or about 59 million acres (24 million hectares), according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency over the Forest Service.

The land sale bill language requires the Interior secretary and Forest Service chief to identify up to 1,837,500 acres of BLM land and 1,447,500 acres of USFS land for sale, respectively.